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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"> </font></p>From:<span><span></span></span><span class="gD"> Isaac M. Davis</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com">isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com</a></span><div class="iw">
</div><span><span>S</span></span>ubject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2011.11.30 (01) [DE-EN-NDS]</span><br>
<br><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div>From: <span><span>Pat Barrett</span> <span><a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net" target="_blank">pbarrett@cox.net</a></span></span><span><span><br>
S</span></span>ubject: <span>LL-L "Etymology" 2011.11.29.(01) [EN]</span><br>
<br><font size="2">I remember clearly in the 50s that magazines like
Time regularly referred to the word smog as new and as being an amalgam of fog
and smoke. But my etymological dictionary cites 1905 as its date of origin and
in reference to London, not Los Angeles.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Is
it possible that it was a relatively recent loan from one dialect of
English to another, perhaps a result of contact between speakers in
World War II?<br><br><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888"><div>saac M. Davis</div><div> </div></font></span><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888">-- <br><br>"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master."<br>
—Abraham Lincoln</font></span><br></div><br>
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